Improvement in water-wheels



,tant @anni sam ISAAC MORSE, or 'HENN1KER, ASSIGNOR `To HIMSELF AND CHARLES H. THORNDIKnoF WEARE, NEw-HAMPSHlR-E.

Leners Parent No. 89,063, dazed Apm 2o, 1869.

IBEPROVEMENT IN WATER-WV'HEELS.

The Schedule refened to in these Letters )Patent and making part of the lame.

To all whom it ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC MORSE, of Henniker, in the county of Merrimack, and State of-New Hampshire,

have invented anew and useful Improvement in Water- Wheels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention consists in a novel construction Ofcombined turbinewheel, having two peculiar water-guides.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a top View of my improved water-wheel,A

eral form is similar to other known bottom-ventwheels. Where the water enters the bucket, I make a guide,-

(b, fig. 1,) extending forward into the mouth of the bucket, so as to guide the water in a compressed or confined volume against the. concave of the bucket,

where it thus strikes with unusual force, vgiving my wheel au increased number of revolutions with a given amount of water.

' It will be observed that the guides b ll part of the space between two buckets, so as to bring the water to act mainly at the circumference of the wheel, and there spend the stroke.

By means of a second guide, c, at the back of the bucket a, the water is turned suddenly back upon its 4 own current, and then passes out at the bottom of the wheel. This. guide alsolincreases the power of the wheel with a given amount of Water.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim thewater-wheel, having the guide b projecting forward `intothe mouth of the bucket, toward the guide c, at the back of the bucket, substantially as set forth.

r ISAAC MORSE.

Witnesses:

' JOHN W. CHASE,

DANIEL HANsoN. 

